Rainbow Rowell Quotes about Writing

Ah. He set down his backpack and pulled out their notebook. You're working on your final project? Indirectly, Cath said. What does that mean? Have you ever heard sculptors say that they don't actually sculpt an object;

Ah." He set down his backpack and pulled out their notebook. "You're working on your final project?" "Indirectly," Cath said. "What does that mean?" "Have you ever heard sculptors say that they don't actually sculpt an object; they sculpt away everything that isn't the object?" "No." He sat down. "Well, I'm writing everything that isn't my final project, so that when I actually sit down to write it, that's all that will be left in my mind.

Rainbow Rowell

Notebook, Mean, Writing

Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.142, Pan Macmillan

Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can’t quite keep up with gravity.

Rainbow Rowell

Running, Writing, Legs

Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.298, Pan Macmillan

But the explanations fell apart in her hands. Everything true was too hard to write--he was too much to lose. Everything she felt for him was too hot to touch.

Rainbow Rowell

Writing, Hands, Hot

Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection”, p.283, St. Martin's Griffin

It felt good to be writing in her own room, in her own bed. To get lost in the World of Mages and stay lost. To not hear any voices in her head but Simon's and Baz's. Not even her own. This was why Cath wrote fic. For these hours when their world supplanted the real world.

Rainbow Rowell

Real, Writing, Voice

Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.381, St. Martin's Griffin

Everybody drinks," she said calmly. The Only Rational One. "Your sister doesn't." When rolled her eyes. "Forgive me, but I'm not going to spend my college years sitting soberly in my dorm room, writing about gay magicians." "Objection," Cath said, reaching for a burrito.

Rainbow Rowell

Eye, Writing, Gay

I take something that happened to me in 1983, and I make it happen to somebody else in 1943. I pick my life apart that way, try to understand it better by writing straight through it.

Rainbow Rowell

Writing, Trying, Way

Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection”, p.556, St. Martin's Griffin